Freight Books: 23 books

29-year-old Lewis’s family are the definition of dysfunctional: his brothers, living estranged and unknown lives in Texas and Toronto; his mother, confined in her self-imposed silent state in a room full of fish and amphibians; and his father, at work in the Victory Barber Shop, where customers...

A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, The Falling Sky brilliantly mixes fiction and astronomy into a fascinating, compelling, and moving narrative Jeanette is a young, solitary post-doctoral researcher who has dedicated her life to studying astronomy....

Abe Stone is a 61-year-old alcoholic with a Henry VIII fixation going through his third divorce. When he starts receiving letters from his dead mother, Evelyn, he is thrown into a late-stage identity crisis. His fourteen-year old granddaughter, Lucille, is expelled from school and the unlikely couple...

A charming, deeply moving portrait of an unlikely friendship between a well-to-do widower and a young homeless woman that helps both overcome their tainted pasts and rediscover happiness Christopher is a decent, elderly, suburban Londoner learning to live again after his release from a loveless...

In a beautifully written, brooding, and visceral modern gothic thriller, a boundary dispute in the wilds of the Scottish Highlands escalates out of control, pitting local against in-comer with explosive and violent consequences Arriving at their idyllic and newly renovated Highland home, wealthy...

A distinctive debut novel by a mature new voice sheds light on a previously neglected aspect of war, its casualties and victims, and those forces unleashed by a conflict that changed the world forever It's 1943 and Jack Devine, a farmer's son from the rural North of Scotland, is finally called...

A beautifully written, haunting tale of motherhood, guilt, myth, and redemption set on the rugged coast at Scotland's furthest edge When Maggie Thame, a childless 40-something woman from Oxford, relocates to a remote village at Scotland's most northern edge, it's clear she's running away....

In an explosive crime debut featuring Detective Veronica "Von" Valenti, members of a hit show in London's West End start dying under mysterious circumstances—much like an unsolved case from 30 years before Who killed director Max Quincey during a run of the play Jack-in-the-Box...

An extraordinary tour de force that examines the impact of faith and fanaticism on a community beleaguered by war Set during the early part of World War II, this novel follows the fortunes of Campbell and Gig, two children who move to a shipbuilding town, with their alcoholic father. Both...